The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-26
THAT QUEER CHICAGO GIRL.
why She WantstO Marry the Con
demned Anarchist.

August the AndFcniSt, u a
person of fine features and form and a
| face of far more thaa usual intelligence.
| She dresses in the height of fashion,
though tastefully and without vulgar
display. Miss Van Zandt was born at
J Philadelphia. Jan. >, 1866. Her father
VINO is well known chemist, employed
/ by the firm James 5. Kirk, soap manu-
| facturers, belongs to one of the old
/ Dutch miles which removed to New
| York State from Central Pennsylv ania
/ about fifty years ago, but Mr.. Van Zandt
was born in Amsterdam, Holland. Her
| mother Ia member of a Scotch En-
gIish family, Clarke by name, and is Il
descendant of the royal house of Stuart.
and one branch of her family has lived
/ in Pittsburg for several generations.
| Miss Van L ,ndt is only little more
! than 81 Years of age. She is neither a
| blonde nor brunette, but about midway
between those ssyies of beauty. and one
can readily trace the marks in her face
ana expression of her three different
lines of ancestry. Her form is above
| the average In its graceful outlines, and
/ her carriage ia all that the most exact
ing would demand.
HOW 1T CAME ABOUT.
/ When she once became interested in the
| trial of the Anarchists, she became a
regular attendant at Judge Gary court.
! She SAYS that, misled by what she had
| heard of the prisoners, who had been
painted to her as monsters and uncOuth
and uneducated barbaIians, she was
very much, and it would seem by the
| result very pleasantly, disappointed
when she came to know at least one of
| them intimately.
HER FATHER WOULD NOT OPPOSE HER.
| Mr.. Van Zandt, in answer to questions
said - am the chemist and perfumer
at kirk's factory, but, outside of that
my daughter is an heiress. Being the
only child in the family, she will be left
| the fortune of her aunt in Pittsburg,
which amounts to 5000, 900 or $500. 900.
| have given my consent to the marriage
| for several reasons. In the first place
have treated her as | was treated by my
own parents. | gave her my confidence
| and she has given me hers, and she has
never betrayed my confidence or kept
any secrets from me. Though of gen
! tie disposition and a most affiectiOnate
/ daughter and obedient in everything, she
is girl of decided will. and | knew,
| knowing her SO well, that it would be
useless to- oppose her wishes when once
| firmly formed so when she preached the
subject to me | simply lold her to think
seriously and calmly about the matter
before she decided to take this step. She
| first saw MIR. Speis several years ago acct
dentally. We had lost a dog which WAS
| a great pet of the family, and especially
of my daughter, and she advertised for
| it in nearly all the papers. and among
| the others the IrbeiteF ZeituHg. The
/ acquaintance at that time. however, was
| mere passing one. They seemed to
have been peculiarly attracted TO one
another, though she did not at that time
ascertain his name, and never saw hin
( until a.
| other defendants in the Anarchists case.
| the way in which my daughter hap
pened to attend the trial was this We,
my wife and myself, are members of the
| Fourth Presbyterian church, and Judge
Gary, who presided at the trial, is a
member of the same church. He invited
| the members of the church. and espe-
cially the ladies' to attend the trial, and
| promised to see that they got seats. and
| many of the ladies, my daughter among
the number. were given seats on the
| bench. on several occasions. by the side
of the Judge.
IL was while thus seated in tie
court room that she recognized in tie
| prisoner the gentleman whom she
| had met at the .Irbeiter ZeitttHg
office, when she took the advertisement,
then several years ago From this recog-
milton grew a closer interest in Spies.
day and was after the trial formally in
troduced To Mr.. Spies. l avn, may say.
no sympathiZer with Socialism IN any
| form. As To MIR. Spies. however, | will
| plaIuly say admire the man, and believe
the conviction of the prisoners was the
result of the public ciamor. | have care
| fully inquired into the matter. and | find
that whatever his political opinions and
actions may have been, his private char
/ =, "A S.,-l
was said against it during the trial. AL
though Ideprecate this thing on account
of the notOreity it will occasion, L must
| honestly say it rs not on account of Mr.
| Spies himself. | have seen him and
| talked with him ana believe him to be a
| worthy man. To refer again to my
| daughter, she il a noble girl, gentle, at
fectIOnate and confiding. but l know it
would be utterly useless to oppose heI
wishes, and if | refused my consent to
| the marriage 1t would make no diff
| ference. The end would be the same,
and It is better that things should hap
pen in the manner proposed than that
they should be compelled to an act of
disObedience. As To the date of the
| marriage. all | can tell you Is that IL will
occur some day early next week.
n Look Abroad.
From DemOrest's Monthly for February.
\ contemplation of what is going on
| in Europe is also calculated to make an
| American citizen cOntented with his lot.
| Abroad there is discomfort among the
masses, and the nations are arming for a
| conflict. which is iuevitab BILE in the near
future. Our army is less than $4,000
| strong; there are thousands of our citi-
zens who never see Federal soldier from
one year to another; but Europe is an
armed camp. On the continent, literally
all the able-bodied young men are enroll
| ed in the various armies. Southeastern
Europe IL filed with political dynamite.
! Russia covets Con stantinople, and Aus
! tria, England and Italy are ready to dis
pute the passage of the armies of the
Car toward the Hellespont. France.
remembering Sedan, cries ''revanche'
/ and dreams of the re- possession of AlSaCe